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Transcription: What is URL Classification Hi, everyone. This is Barak from url-classification.io, and today I’m going to speak about what is URL classification and what are the common usage for it. Before starting, it’s important to know that for URL classification, there are other names like URL categorization and URL categorization database. There are new […]

What is website classification? Website classification is a process that takes a website, and translate it into one or two categories which best describes the website. For example CNN is news, Facebook is social networks. Each industry has a different usage for website classification: Parental control – Blocking age inappropriate websites and/or alerting the parent. […]

URL Categorization is a service that allows you do get the classification of a Domain or URL, we wrote extensively on the difference between Domain Classification and URL Classification. How to communicate with a URL Categorization service There are two main methods, one is to use URL Categorization API, as seen in the next picture: […]

I remember the site urlblacklist.com, it was a good resource for proxy owners, security managers, and application developers to test their idea before spending money on URL Classification services from a commercial vendor. For some users this free solution was good enough to use even after the proof of concept, and for some users it […]

When speaking with potential client’s about URL Classification, one the questions I ask is if they want to use Domain level classification or URL level classification. So what’s the difference? In Domain level URL Classification, the site is classified as a whole, which means CNN and Wikipedia are classified at the main level, so CNN […]

Why is URL Categorization API needed? When developing a filtering application like DLP, Parental Control, Anti Virus, one of the core requirements is to “know” the content of a domain, or URL, without it, even the best website filtering technology will not work. A url filtering engine can only block or allow a website. But […]

What is URL Categorization Database? URL Categorization Database is a database that is made of domains, and optionally URLs, it’s a static database that is used deployed on servers. The URL Categorization Database may come in various formats: Text files A local database like SQLite A local database like MySQL Proprietary format Do you offer […]